August 22

The Institut d'Égypte, the learned society whose scholars produced the vast Description de l'Égypte, was founded in Cairo in 1798.

The Czech Egyptologist Jaroslav Černý, a leading authority on the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina and on hieratic script, was born in 1898.

The French Egyptologist Georges Legrain, who uncovered the great Karnak Cachette of statues and bronzes, died at Luxor in 1917.

Rashid Rida, the Islamic reformer and founder-editor of the influential journal al-Manar, died in Egypt.